Google Ads Language Targeting Change: September 2026
What changes in Google Ads in September 2026? Campaign-level language targeting disappears from Search and AI Max for Search. Ad language and Google’s user signals decide who sees your ads. No setting reverses it.
Google Ads AI Max Migration: September 2026
Which Google Ads campaigns migrate to AI Max in September 2026? Any Search campaign using campaign-level broad match or Automatically Created Assets. Migration runs 1-30 September. Dynamic Search Ads follow in February 2027.
AI Max Is Rolling Into Standard Shopping With a 5% Lift Claim. You Will Never See It in Your Own Data.
Google began rolling AI Max into Standard Shopping campaigns on 24 July, bringing AI query matching, ad text generated from your feed, and landing page optimisation to the campaign type that has always given advertisers the most manual control.